Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-29
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
The Texas and Pacific Stock Yards in
Fort Worth the Largest and
Finest I'm the State.
Tarrant County Sheep and HOgs-The
ButChers' Union-saIe of Horses
Local and GeneI al Notes.

Mr.. Y.BDoweIl Of Cisco says stockmen.
are on the 60 all the time now in mis-
neighborhood. Grass is fine and water
plentiful, and the poor COWS are getting
fat. Cattle of al grades have advanced
since the rain, and during the last ten
days there have been several heavy cattle
trades made and there are plenty Of cat
tie left for sale.
a number OF wool-grOwers and dealers
from Tarrant county and Fort Worth in
tend to 90 TO st. Louis to the meeting of
the International Sheep Shesring AssoCia-
ton, which commences on May 9.
A. T. Wooten, the well known Tarrant
county cattleman, whose ranch is eigh-
teen miles southwest of Fort Worth, was
in the city yesterday making arrange
ments for the shipment of 1900 head of
cattle to Indian Territory. He will prob
ably ship over the Missouri Pacific to
Vinita.
The Missouri Pacific brought in sixteen
cars Of coast cattle last night bound for
the Territory. They came over the San
Antonio and AranzQs Pass to San An
tonic. The cattle were UnIOaded here.
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The Butchers union met last night with
twenty shops represented. A healthier
looking and better set Of men would be
hard to fad. Messrs. Stein, Matkin,
Canto and Pendery were appointed COM
mittee to memorabilia the City Council in
regard to the appointment of g meat in
spector. 1t was determined that begin
ming May l, all shops would be closed
from 10 q. N. to 1 p. m, this rule to be
in force until October. The union
reach professional delinquents, and plan
has been decided on to cover cases of that
kind. Every butcher present last night
said most emphaticaIly that Fort Worth
was by all odds the best cattle market in
Texas.
Tom Aston, the greas beef contractor
for the forces at work on the Fort Worth
and Denver, bought twenty-siX fat beeyes
in Fort Worth yesterday. He says be has
to come to a market to get his beef, al
thong it looks like carrying Goals to New
Castle to ship beef i0tO the Panhandle.
TWenty-siX beeves Will supply him for
two or three days.
J. G. Richardson received an order yes
terday for two car loads of hogs to be
shipped TO FL PasO. Tarrant county is
fast becoming noted for its fine hogs, and
the industry has proved very profitable.
This county now raises more than enough
to supply the home consumption, and
supplies Dallas, San Antonio, Galveston,
FL Paso and other Texas cities. There is
money in hogs.
In speaking of Fort Worth as a cattle
market, Captain Richardson said yester-
day that we were far ahead of ell other
points in the state. The largest stock
yards in Texas were here, those of the
Texas and Pacific, where six to seven
trains of cattle, fifteen car loads to the
{ air, could be han lied easily. The TaiIrosd
company had put these yards in fine fix;
all the pens were graveIed and the water
ing facilities were UEeXCelled. He said
there was one little thing that needed
attention st the yards, and that was
stripping the managers, but three men in q
couple of days could repair them easily.
The Texas and Pacific, the Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe, the Houston and
Texas Central and the Missouri
Pacific all unlOaded their cattle at
Fort Worth and more cattle get on and off
the cars al EOrG w OTLn III udY Ilau at
al the other cities in the state combined.
From Fort Worth the markets at Chicago,
St. Louis, Kansas City, Vicksburg,
Shreveport, Galveston, New Orleans, and
St. LOUIS were reached by direct lines
and all the grazing country was r, ached
through this city.
Mr.. Louis Stein reports having slaugh-
tered some very fine sheep lately. Ten
head weighed 1885 pounds, and a single
one dressed out 1929 pounds, believed to
be abou the largest mutton that was ever
sacrificed for the palate of man in this
section. These sheep were raised by
Mr.. S. L. Easley in this county, near Fort
Worth, and got fat as seals by simply
INNING on field of wheat.
The Waties Horse Company closed
sale of another car load Of Mexican horses
yesterday.
Wool Mon TO Meet,